Hirb doesn't work at all in rails console

I followed the tutorial on hirb rdoc but unfortunately, my rails console is not working at all.

I've already done sudo gem install hirb

and added hirb to my Gemfile:

gem 'hirb', '~>0.7.0' 

Then I launched bundle install

And I get this result :

rails c Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.11) > require 'hirb' => false > Hirb.enable => true > Municipality.all Municipality Load (0.8ms) SELECT "municipalities".* FROM "municipalities" ORDER BY name asc => [#<Municipality id: 1, district_id: 6, name: "Ambalamanasy II", created_at: "2013-01-16 12:11:45", updated_at: "2013-01-16 12:11:45">, ... # doesn't work 

Could anyone help?

3 Answers

If your using pry as your rails console... add this in your .pryrc file

require 'hirb' Hirb.enable old_print = Pry.config.print Pry.config.print = proc do |output, value| Hirb::View.view_or_page_output(value) || old_print.call(output, value) end 

Yoshdog's answer is outdated - it returns an error:

output error: # NoMethodError: undefined method `pager' for nil:NilClass

You can fix this by using the updated code from the docs:

begin require 'hirb' rescue LoadError # Missing goodies, bummer end if defined? Hirb # Slightly dirty hack to fully support in-session toggling Hirb::View.instance_eval do def enable_output_method @output_method = true @old_print = Pry.config.print Pry.config.print = proc do |*args| Hirb::View.view_or_page_output(args[1]) || @old_print.call(*args) end end def disable_output_method Pry.config.print = @old_print @output_method = nil end end Hirb.enable end 

This will also allow you to enable/disable Hirb, which may come in handy.

If you using pry it's works for me

$ pwd /Users/me/path/rails-app $ ls -la -rw-r--r-- 1 ryosuke staff 554 12 26 17:50 .pryrc 

and

begin require 'hirb' rescue LoadError # Missing goodies, bummer end if defined? Hirb # Slightly dirty hack to fully support in-session toggling Hirb::View.instance_eval do def enable_output_method @output_method = true @old_print = Pry.config.print Pry.config.print = proc do |*args| Hirb::View.view_or_page_output(args[1]) || @old_print.call(*args) end end def disable_output_method Pry.config.print = @old_print @output_method = nil end end Hirb.enable end